Uncubed: The Life and Times of an Indian Guy named Krishna

As I write this, Aarti, her sister Lucy, and Sonia are somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean, en route to Belgium. Their final destination: Mumbai, India.

I dropped the girls off at the airport this morning. No matter how much I had prepared for today, I’ve gotta say: it’s never easy to let go. We had a nice pancake breakfast, after an early morning start, and arrived at the airport around 10.

I don’t think Sonia understood what was happening, at least until it was time for Aarti to take the shuttle to the gate. At that point, Sonia started to cry really loud. I think she finally realized what “Papa in Tampa. Mamma, Lucy, Sonia go on plane to India” finally meant.

I gotta admit: I shed a tear too. It was an emotional moment for us all.

This is Sonia’s first international flight. I hope she does well. I know that Aarti and Lucy will be there to take care of her.

I’ll be joining them in mid-December, after the Fall quarter is over. Even though they’ve been gone only for a very short time, I am counting down the days until I see them.

We’ll have Skype to video chat with, and we’re planning to do that at least once a day. In the meantime, it’s really quiet at home. I prepared my own meal (pasta with red wine) this evening. It’s certainly not the same as Aarti’s cooking…

I took care of a few chores this afternoon. I hung up my die-cast car rack, which I received yesterday. On the geeky side, I installed a new 1 terabyte Western Digital SATA internal hard drive in my Mac and burned some data back-ups onto DVD.

Now that the house is empty, it’s going to be odd to get uninterrupted sleep. I won’t have a doting wife asking me to go to bed at 10PM. It’s a crazy independence I’m not sure I’m ready to reclaim. (I’ve been trained pretty well.)

Next Wednesday, the Fall quarter starts for me. I’ll be preparing for my courses over the next few days. I plan to take advantage of the time I have to push myself even harder at work and with my personal projects. Anything to keep time moving by at a quick speed, so I can see my girls again.

-Krishna